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Monday, May 1, 2017

CDC working to keep yellow fever vaccine supply from running out

There have been 10
reported cases of Yellow Fever in unvaccinated Americans who traveled from the
U.S. to Africa between 1970 and 2015.So gee whiz, is
it any wonder that officials in the Centers for Disease Control “are taking
urgent measures to keep the nation’s supply of yellow fever vaccine from being
depleted within a few months!”

A year after the Zika outbreak hit the
U.S., health officials are now concerned about preparing to fight another
mosquito-borne illness: yellow fever. Today officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that
they are taking urgent measures to keep the nation’s supply of yellow fever
vaccine from being depleted within a few months.

Only one vaccine called YF-VAX is
licensed for use in the U.S. and the CDC reported today the vaccine is expected
to run out by the middle of this year due to manufacturing problems with the
supplier.

Health officials are now working with
the supplier Sanofi Pasteur and the FDA to make another yellow fever vaccine available. This
vaccine called Stamaril is approved for use in 70 countries but not the U.S. It
manufactured by Sanofi Pasteur France will be available at 252 sites in the
U.S. This is a vast reduction from the estimated 4,000 sites that normally
provide the yellow fever vaccine.

In a statement Sanofi said they had a
manufacturing issue after preparing to move to a new manufacturing facility in
2018. While they implemented restriction in 2016 so help stretch supply, they
said they anticipate YF-VAX will be unavailable from the middle of 2017 through
the middle of 2018.

"Bringing answers to the global
threat posed by yellow fever is a key commitment for Sanofi Pasteur. Sanofi
Pasteur recognizes the challenge this supply disruption will cause for
customers and for patients in need of yellow fever vaccine. We are making every
effort to see that yellow fever vaccination continues in the U.S. during this
YF-VAX vaccine supply disruption."

Getting travelers to get immunized for
protection remains a struggle. Every year approximately 500,000 vaccinations
for yellow fever are given to travelers or the military, who are going to areas
where the virus is endemic. However, an estimated 8 million U.S. residents
traveled to 42 countries with endemic yellow fever virus transmission in 2015,
according to the CDC.

“Yellow fever virus can be exported by
unimmunized travelers returning to countries where the virus is not endemic,”
the CDC authors wrote. “Reports of yellow fever in at least 10 unimmunized
returning U.S. and European travelers were recorded during 1970–2013.”

The vaccine shortage comes as multiple
yellow fever outbreaks have spread in different areas of the globe. In Brazil
an outbreak erupted in December 2016, with 681 confirmed cases and 234
confirmed deaths as of April 20 2017, according to the Pan American Health
Organization (PAHO). Over 800 cases remain under investigation. In 2015 an
outbreak that started in Angola spread to other countries and caused 965 cases from
2015 to 2017, according to the CDC.

The disease generally causes flu-like
illness with high fevers. Most patients recover after this stage, but about one
in five go on to have the most severe form of the fever, known as the
“intoxication." It’s marked by bleeding, severe liver dysfunction, kidney failure, and jaundice-- hence the moniker “yellow”
fever. The disease is often spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the same
insect that is the primary cause of the Zika virus infection.

“It is also conceivable that yellow
fever outbreaks may occur in the U.S. territories, just as the recent Zika
epidemic reached Puerto Rico, causing a significant outbreak there and leading
to thousands of travel-related cases,” Fauci wrote with his co-author.

While it is unlikely for yellow fever
to sweep through the U.S., due in part to fewer mosquitoes, there is still a
risk that unimmunized travellers could import the disease when they return from
endemic regions.

“In an era of frequent international
travel, any marked increase in domestic cases in Brazil raises the possibility
of travel-related cases and local transmission in regions where yellow fever is
not endemic,” wrote Fauci and his co-author wrote.